Panteleimon Ponomarenko

Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Panteleimon Ponomarenko
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
	In office; 6 February 1954 – 7 May 1955
Preceded by	Zhumabay Shayakhmetov
Succeeded by	Leonid Brezhnev
Minister of Culture
	In office; 15 March 1953 – 9 March 1954
Premier	Georgy Malenkov
Preceded by	Nikolai Bespalov
Succeeded by	Georgy Aleksandrov
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
	In office; 7 February 1944 – 17 March 1948
Preceded by	Ivan Bylinsky
Succeeded by	Aleksey Kleshchev
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
	In office; 18 June 1938 – 7 March 1947
Preceded by	Aleksei Volkov
Succeeded by	Nikolai Gusarov
Full member of the 19th Presidium
	In office; 16 October 1952 – 5 March 1953
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
	In office; 5 March 1953 – 14 February 1956
Member of the 18th, 19th Secretariat
	In office; 1 July 1948 – 5 March 1953
Personal details
Born	9 August [O.S. 27 July] 1902; Krasnodar Krai, Russian Empire
Died	18 January 1984 (aged 81); Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko (Template:Lang-ru, Template:Lang-be; 9 August [O.S. 27 July] 1902 – 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army before becoming a Soviet administrator in Belarus and then Kazakhstan. He was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

From 1938 to 1947, Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belorussia, and from 1944 to 1948, also the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Byelorussia. During World War II, he led Communist partisan units within Nazi-occupied Belarus. He clashed with the Polish underground and gave orders for his troops to disarm them and execute the officers.^[1] In this aspect the forces under Ponomarenko's command initiated a limited cooperation with the Nazi occupation forces informing on members of the Polish underground.^[1]^{[unreliable source?]}

From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953, Ponomarenko was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was made First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1954 before becoming the Soviet ambassador to Poland between 1955 and 1957.^[2]^[3]

Ponomarenko also taught diplomacy and assisted in the creation of the National Jazz Orchestra in Minsk.^{[citation needed]}

References

This article is based in part on material from the Polish Wikipedia

^ ^a ^b Bogdan Musiał. "Memorandum Pantelejmona Ponomarienki z 20 stycznia 1943 r. in: O zachowaniu się Polaków i niektórych naszych zadaniach". Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość (in Polish) (2006-09-01). Instytut Pamięci Narodowej: 379. ISSN 1427-7476. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
^ Brown, Archie (1990) "Ponomarenko, Pantaleimon Kondrat'evich (1902–1984)" The Soviet Union: A biographical dictionary Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-02-897071-3 ;
^ Vronskaya, Jeanne and Chuguev, Vladimir (1988) "Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondrat'evich (1902–1984)" A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917–1988 K.G. Saur, London, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 ;